June 25, 2025

Meta is adding AI-powered summaries to WhatsApp

Meta announced on Wednesday that it’s adding an AI-powered summaries feature to WhatsApp. The optional new feature uses Meta AI to summarize unread messages in a chat. This summary would only be visible to you, not others in your chat, the company notes. The feature builds on the AI technology that Meta released in April, […]

Intel’s chief commercial officer and sales lead, Christoph Schell, resigns

April 30, 2025
Christoph Schell, Intel’s EVP and chief commercial officer, is leaving the company after two years in the role, according to a filing with the SEC. Schell notified Intel of his decision to leave on Monday, and will resign on June 30 “in order to pursue another career opportunity,” per the filing. It isn’t clear who will replace […]

Supio, an AI-powered legal analysis platform, lands $60M

April 30, 2025
Supio, a startup that uses AI to automate data collection and analysis for legal teams, has raised $60 million in a funding round led by Sapphire Ventures with participation from Mayfield and Thomson Reuters Ventures. The new capital, which brings Supio’s total raised to $91 million, will be put toward growth, hiring, and go-to-market efforts, […]

DeepSeek upgrades its math-focused AI model Prover

April 30, 2025
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has quietly updated Prover, its AI model that’s designed to solve math-related proofs and theorems. According to South China Morning Post, DeepSeek uploaded the latest version of Prover, V2, to AI dev platform, Hugging Face, late on Wednesday. It appears to be built on top of the startup’s V3 model, which […]

The Download: stereotypes in AI models, and the new age of coding

April 30, 2025
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This data set helps researchers spot harmful stereotypes in LLMs What’s new? AI models are riddled with culturally specific biases. A new data set, called SHADES, is designed to help developers combat the…

Cast AI raises $108M to get the max out of AI, Kubernetes and other workloads

April 30, 2025
The crush of traffic going into training and running AI has quickly turned into a major cost and resource headache for organisations. Today, Cast AI — a startup building tools to ease and optimise AI and other workloads with automation — is raising a major round of funding on the back of its strong growth […]

AI sales tax startup Kintsugi had doubled its valuation in 6 months

April 30, 2025
Kintsugi, a Silicon Valley-based startup that helps companies offload and automate their sales tax compliance, has raised $18 million in new funding led by global indirect tax technology solution provider Vertex. The startup plans to enable more small and medium businesses to use its AI-enabled capabilities for tax calculations and filings. The ongoing growth of […]

This data set helps researchers spot harmful stereotypes in LLMs

April 30, 2025
AI models are riddled with culturally specific biases. A new data set, called SHADES, is designed to help developers combat the problem by spotting harmful stereotypes and other kinds of discrimination that emerge in AI chatbot responses across a wide range of languages. Margaret Mitchell, chief ethics scientist at AI startup Hugging Face, led the…